Any one else shoot trap with a Gold Label ?

[Hammer]

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Any one else here shoot trap with a Ruger Gold Label side-by-side ?

Mine has the straight English stock and splinter forend.

Use 1 ounce of #8 at 1145 fps.

Heavier loads get to me with this light a gun for a whole day at the range.


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[steveodtw]

I've shot some sporting clays and a Tower shoot with my Gold Label. I wear a strap-on shoulder recoil dampening pad under my coat/shirt. That's a lot of recoil without one on that hard palstic butt plate. But I love my Gold Label none the less.

 

[JFB]

I'm still waiting on mine

 

[Coop]

When Ruger was pushing them, they were advertised in Ruger's catalogues as the perfect "upland game" shotgun, with the hunter walking thru glorious dappled sunlite open fields, etc., etc. This shotgun was not built for heavy trap/skeet use.

Nonetheless, I have used mine for trap and skeet, love to shoot it, but not all day :roll:

Now pheasant hunting with the Gold Label here in PA is a whole 'nuther ballgame.

Coop

 

[vol423]

I have a three digit serial numbered gun. I can shoot game better with this gun than any other I own. I really don't care for the single trigger, and the styling around the tang turns me off, but as long as I can shoot as well as I do with it, I'll keep using it. I used to live in PA and I now go back once a year for pheasant. I use 1.25 ounces of No 6 and No 4 shot with IC and Full chokes and it brings down the game. Kicks a little, but I never notice recoil when shooting game. My longest shot last year was the second shot on a double at about 55 yards.

 

[Hammer]

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One of my friends has a very nice collection of American, British, and European side-by-side shotguns.

Prefers his Ruger Gold Label over all the rest for pheasant.

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[VAdoublegunner]

I always considered my Gold Label a great field gun, but not as much fun as a serious clays/skeet/trap gun although it is enjoyable for practice. If you plan to shoot a hundred+ heavy loads at trap, you'll feel it. It works well for sporting clays as long as you like 7/8 or 1 oz loads, which I do. It can be fun at skeet and swings quickly but isn't too whippy.

Where it excels is in light carry weight and great shouldering and swing for a field gun, which with screw in chokes can accommodate lots of variable conditions. I gotta admit, though, that as prices on these have risen to crazy levels I find that I'm more comfortable with it on the clays/skeet range. But that wasn't exactly what I bought it for, nor what it was made for is it?